Meeting DoD’s Energy and Environmental Challenges

Meeting DoD’s Energy and Environmental Challenges

Dorothy RobynDeputy Under Secretary of Defense

(Installations and Environment)December 1, 2009

Acquisition, Technology and Logistics

Combat Power Begins At Home

It is the policy of the United States to promote the efficient and economical use of America's real property assets and to assure management accountability for implementing Federal real property management reform

Executive Order 13327

Overall DoD Mission Provide the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of the United States

Overall DoD Support Functions

Ensure that the Department rapidly delivers the right capabilities, resources and materiel to our warfighters - what they need, where they need it, when they need it, anywhere in the world

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations & Environment) Mission:

Provide installation assets and services necessary to support our military forces in a cost effective, safe, sustainable, and environmentally sound manner


Real Property in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Enterprise

• More than 539,000 real property assets with plant replacement value of $700B+

• More than 5,500 sites in the US and 40 other countries

• Expenditures of $62B+/year for supporting our Installations and Environment programs

• Almost 300 different installation management systems

DoD, like virtually all customer-centric businesses, is an enterprise.


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DoD Explosives Safety Board Enabling the DoD Mission by

Operationalizing Explosives Safety

The sound you don’t hear is us doing our jobs…


Key Points

• Energy and the environment are a high priority to DoD — and that reflects self interest

• Science and technology are key to DoD protecting the environment and reducing its carbon “bootprint”

• It’s critical to get the incentives right

I. Energy and the environment are a high priority to DoD — and that reflects self interest


Executive Order 13514 “Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy and

Economic Performance”

• Gives federal agencies 90 days to set 2020 greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goal

• Sets targets for sustainable buildings water efficiency, waste reduction

• Expands green procurement ($500B/year in purchasing power)


DoD Energy Use

• $20B direct costs in 2008– $16B fuel

o Current optempo higho Fuel price high

– $4B facilitieso 64% electricity purchases

• Energy GHG Emission– 73.5 million MT CO2 eq in 2008

o 1.3% of US emissionso Would be in top 40 countries

Facility (36%)

Mobility & generators (62%)

Fleet fuel: non-tactical (2%)

GHG (CO2 eq)


Army Energy GHG Emissions

Future footprint?(CO2e )

Current Optempo(CO2e )

Facilities (50%)Generators (17%)Combat Aircraft (15%)Tactical Vehicles (16%)Non-tactical Vehicles (2%)

Facilities (77%)Generators (2%)Combat Aircraft (10%)Tactical Vehicles (5%)Non-tactical Vehicles (5%)


Lowest-Hanging Fruit: Energy Efficiency Improvements

• Building standards

• HVAC systems

• Metering


DoD as a Steward of the Environment

• 29 million acres– 17 million of them

withdrawn from the Bureau of Land Management

• Pristine test and training ranges

• More than 320 threatened and endangered species

II. Science and technology are key to DoD protecting the environment and reducing its carbon “bootprint”


DoD Built Infrastructure

• 539,000 Facilities (buildings, structures, linear structures)– 307,295 buildings

o 2.2 B sq ft

• Comparisons– GSA: 1,513 government

buildingso 176 M sq ft

– Walmart US: 4,200 buildingso 687 M sq ft

Operation & Training (10%)

Maintenance & Production (14%)

Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (3%)

Supply (15%)

Hospital & Medical (3%)

Administrative (10%)

Family Housing (20%)

Troop Housing and Mess Facilities (12%)

Community Facilities (11%)

Utility & Ground Improvements (1%)


Current Practice

• Very little research and development directed toward installation energy issues

• Exploitation and leveraging of Department of Energy (DOE) investments uncoordinated and limited

• Current practices sub-optimal in all phases– Design, build, commission, and operate– Current reduction in energy usage outpaced by increase in

energy costso Air Force reduced energy usage by 11% but costs increased by

49% (2001 to 2007)

• Technology Procured Though Alternative Financing Mechanisms: ESPC and UESC– Barrier to exploiting innovation

• Unique opportunity being missed


Energy Intensity

• DoD Energy intensity (2008): 327 KW-hr/m2

• Next generation buildings ~ 75 to 150 KWhr/m2

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Installation Energy R&D Initiative

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Use DoD facilities as test bed for innovative energy technologies – Validate performance, cost, and environmental impacts– Transfer lessons learned, design and procurement information across

all Services and installations– Directly reach out to private sector for innovations– Leverage DOE investments

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Test and evaluate for all DoD facilities– Energy conservation and efficiency– Renewable and distributed energy generation– Control and management of energy resources and loads

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Stimulate increased investments at DoD facilities (Energy Savings Performance Contracts)

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Transform DoD’s military construction design practices


Benefits

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Decreased Costs and Increased Security – Reduced energy demand in existing buildings ~50%– Reduced energy demand in new buildings ~80%

o Through systems design, modeling, and monitoring coupled to energy efficient components

– Increased energy efficiency and power qualityo Distributed energy resources (DER)o Micro-grid management

– Increased fuel diversity and reduced price volatilityo DER and renewables

– Increased securityo Local power generation and reduced demando Islanding through micro-grid management

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Reduced Carbon Footprint (CO2 )

III. It’s critical to get the incentives right

Meeting DoD’s Energy and Environmental Challenges

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